Work Kali: Thousands affected by a deadly earthquake in the East Afghanistan Clean water and food are needed and there is a risk of disease, an Afghan health ministry official said on Sunday, a UN agency warning of a cholera outbreak in the region.
Wednesday’s earthquake killed at least 1,000 people, injured 2,000 and destroyed 10,000 homes, after the United Nations Humanitarian Office (UNHR)Ocha) warned that the subsequent cholera outbreak is a matter of special and serious concern.
“People are in dire need of food and clean water,” Afghan health ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman told Reuters. The authorities have managed the medicines for now, but for those who have lost their homes, it will be a challenge to handle.
“We ask the international community, humanitarian organizations to help us with food and medicine, survivors may catch diseases because they do not have proper homes and shelters to live in,” he said.
Disaster is a big test for Afghanistan’s hardliners Taliban The ruler, who has been relinquished by several foreign governments over concerns about human rights since he seized control of the country last year.
Helping thousands of Afghans is also a challenge for countries that have imposed sanctions on Afghan government bodies and banks, cut off direct aid, leading to a humanitarian crisis even before the earthquake.
United Nations And many other countries have sent aid to the affected areas, with more arriving in the coming days.
Afghanistan’s Taliban administration has called for the lifting of sanctions and the lifting of a freeze on billions of dollars of central bank assets held in Western financial institutions.
In KabulHospitals that treat victims of war have opened their wards to earthquake victims, but most people live in areas devastated by the earthquake.
Hazrat Ali, 18, told a Reuters team: “Our houses are destroyed, we have no tents… We have too many children with us. We have nothing. Our food and clothes… Everything is buried under rubble.” Voor KaliA village in the worst affected Barmal district.
He said, “I have lost my brothers, my heart is broken. Now we are just two. I loved them dearly.”
Wednesday’s earthquake killed at least 1,000 people, injured 2,000 and destroyed 10,000 homes, after the United Nations Humanitarian Office (UNHR)Ocha) warned that the subsequent cholera outbreak is a matter of special and serious concern.
“People are in dire need of food and clean water,” Afghan health ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman told Reuters. The authorities have managed the medicines for now, but for those who have lost their homes, it will be a challenge to handle.
“We ask the international community, humanitarian organizations to help us with food and medicine, survivors may catch diseases because they do not have proper homes and shelters to live in,” he said.
Disaster is a big test for Afghanistan’s hardliners Taliban The ruler, who has been relinquished by several foreign governments over concerns about human rights since he seized control of the country last year.
Helping thousands of Afghans is also a challenge for countries that have imposed sanctions on Afghan government bodies and banks, cut off direct aid, leading to a humanitarian crisis even before the earthquake.
United Nations And many other countries have sent aid to the affected areas, with more arriving in the coming days.
Afghanistan’s Taliban administration has called for the lifting of sanctions and the lifting of a freeze on billions of dollars of central bank assets held in Western financial institutions.
In KabulHospitals that treat victims of war have opened their wards to earthquake victims, but most people live in areas devastated by the earthquake.
Hazrat Ali, 18, told a Reuters team: “Our houses are destroyed, we have no tents… We have too many children with us. We have nothing. Our food and clothes… Everything is buried under rubble.” Voor KaliA village in the worst affected Barmal district.
He said, “I have lost my brothers, my heart is broken. Now we are just two. I loved them dearly.”